SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLED, mozilla-nss (SUSE-SU-2016:0334-1)

Critical Nessus Plugin ID 88619

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-SLE, mozilla-nss fixes the following issues: (bsc#963520)

Mozilla Firefox was updated to 38.6.0 ESR. Mozilla NSS was updated to 3.20.2.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed :

 - CVE-2016-1930: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 38.6 (bsc#963632)

 - CVE-2016-1935: Buffer overflow in WebGL after out of memory allocation (bsc#963635)

 - CVE-2016-1938: Calculations with mp_div and mp_exptmod in Network Security Services (NSS) canproduce wrong results (bsc#963731)

The following improvements were added :

 - bsc#954447: Mozilla NSS now supports a number of new DHE ciphersuites

 - Tracking protection is now enabled by default

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp4-mozilla-12383=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-mozilla-12383=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-mozilla-12383=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-mozilla-12383=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-mozilla-12383=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp4-mozilla-12383=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-mozilla-12383=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-mozilla-12383=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-mozilla-12383=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=954447

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963520

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963632

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963635

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=963731

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1930/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1935/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1938/

http://www.nessus.org/u?0d000931

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 88619

File Name: suse_SU-2016-0334-1.nasl

Version: 2.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2016/02/08

Updated: 2019/09/11

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Critical

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:MozillaFirefox, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:MozillaFirefox-branding-SLED, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:MozillaFirefox-translations, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libfreebl3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsoftokn3, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:mozilla-nss-tools, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: false

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2016/02/04

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2016/01/31

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1930, CVE-2016-1935, CVE-2016-1938